I had a truly wonderful surprise the other day. I was on the train back from a day trip to London, casually browsing through my phone...

5 years ago I wrote this post in my blog about my late mother who died in 2016. In this I quoted a discourse from Sathya Sai Baba. ‘The...

I used to watch many Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s videos, and do one of his meditations, in which you repeat to yourself, ‘I am not my...

Needless to say, I think yoga is one of the most beneficial things one can do to his/her mental and physical wellbeing. But actually...

The other day my daughter was working in a Covid Vaccine clinic and she messaged me at break saying how tiring it was. So I messaged back...

My son was home from university during the Christmas holiday period. On the morning of the New Year ’s Eve, for some reason the...

Recently I watched a film where the main character suffered schizophrenia. (I’m not naming the title of the film because it would be a...

Do you know what Zen is? How can we live Zen in our life and in our yoga practice?

Since I left London in 1997 I have been practising yoga by myself or sometimes practised together with other Ashtanga Yoga enthusiasts....

Today is the first rainy day since the lockdown started 37 days ago, and it looks like it will stay wet for the week. Yey! The garden is...

This coming Saturday the 25th of April was going to be my first Yoga Philosophy workshop. As it’s not going to happen, and I seem to have...

I didn’t take it very well when the lockdown was coming our way. Like many people who are self-employed, I get zero penny if I don’t go...

The other day I took part in an event where many of my yoga students also participated. I was talking to a person who had come to my yoga...

In the mid-1990’s when I used to go to many many yoga classes and retreats, I had never attended even a single class with background...

Have you ever fallen asleep in savasana, corps pose? I have. Most of us have. Although you are not meant to, I don’t think it’s a bad...

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to update this blog more regularly. Another one is to go to India. I have been talking about going...

As a part of my Yoga Philosophy course at Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, I wrote an essay on authenticity of contemporary yoga. My...

I started an online Yoga philosophy course by Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies in July. This is a short course with 7 weeks of weekly...

(From Yoga and Mindfulness Workshop on 10th June 2018) So to be mindful means to be at present moment. To be here and now. What a good...

(From Yoga and Mindfulness Workshop 5th May 2018) I had recently had a chance to talk to a consultant psychiatrist from North Devon...